Lunar Eclipse

The men attempt to relive their childhood by watching a lunar eclipse.

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DVD: The Red Green Show – 2000 Season

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Segment Summary
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Plot: Red announces that, for the first time in 35 years, there will be a lunar eclipse, and he plans to get the lodge members to watch it with him from Rock Reef Point. Dalton and Mike propose that they make the occasion into an overnight camping trip, just as they did in their youth. They make the plans for the trip, and Winston even brings a video camera to record the occasion. As it turns out, however, although everyone does go along with Red, they are more interested either in watching television or turning in early than in watching the eclipse. To add insult to injury, Winston forgot to remove the lens cap on his camera during his recording.

Opening Scene: Red uses a worm-picker's pal and a siphon hose and fills the pal with ice water to walk around feeling cooler.

The Possum Lodge Word Game: Ed tries to guess the word "nervous" to win a chance to spend the entire day as the town mascot.

Handyman Corner: Red turns his old Possum Van into an air boat.

Red's Sage Advice: Staring at stuff.

The Experts: Red, Dalton and Dwight discuss tips on how to correct a person's laziness.

Adventures: The men turn a drive-in theater into a golf driving range.

Red's Handyman Tips: Red attaches a cell phone to his back and calls himself using a rotary wall phone.

Famous People In Possum Lake History: Walt Gorgavich, Possum Lodge's daredevil.

Trivia

 * The Adventures segment was filmed at the Starlite Drive-In Theater (standing in for the Possum Lake Drive-In), which is located on Green Mountain Road near the then-Hamilton, Ontario suburb of Stoney Creek, Ontario (in 2001, a year after this episode first aired, it was amalgamated into Hamilton itself). This is revealed through a sticker that appears when Dalton announces that the other men have to leave.

Inside References

 * The Possum Lake Drive-In was previously mentioned by Mike in Hurricane Doug.

Real-World References

 * The same sticker mentioned above also features Toy Story 2 and Dinosaur as the films playing at the Possum Lake Drive-In.

Famous People

 * A photograph used to represent Walt Gorgavich is actually that of Walter Reuther and Richard Frankensteen after they were beaten by guards during the Battle of the Overpass at the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan in 1937.